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RISE With SAP Changes More Than Your Technology

RISE with SAP is SAP’s business transformation as a service model, bundling S/4HANA Cloud, supporting platforms and tools, and managed cloud infrastructure into a single subscription. Instead of purchasing licenses and hosting separately, organizations consume SAP as a bundled, subscription-based service.

RISE is not a new version of S/4HANA; it is a different way of deploying and operating it. This shift fundamentally changes how SAP is delivered, governed, and paid for. Infrastructure, operations, and software move from a static asset to a variable cost that can scale with usage.

While this flexibility can simplify operations, it also introduces financial and licensing risk. Costs fluctuate, commercial assumptions are fixed early, and licensing models often change during migration. Without active oversight, organizations lose visibility, overpay for access, and inherit long-term contractual constraints that are difficult to unwind.

WHY RISE NEEDS COMMERCIAL OVERSIGHT

Cost, Licensing, and Control Are No Longer Static

RISE migrations are often treated as technical programs, but the biggest risks sit outside the system build. As services scale dynamically, organizations need real-time visibility into cost drivers, licensing consumption, and contractual exposure.

This requires procurement, finance, and SAP stakeholders to stay engaged throughout the journey, not just at contract signature.

Without structured cost modelling and continuous monitoring, organizations struggle to predict spend, challenge SAP assumptions, or maintain commercial leverage.

  • Costs scale dynamically with usage

  • Licensing models shift mid-migration

  • User access changes constantly

  • Contracts define long-term flexibility

  • Limited visibility increases audit risk

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WHAT OUR SERVICES HELP WITH

How JNC Helps Organizations Succeed With RISE

RISE migrations create ongoing financial, licensing, and governance challenges that extend well beyond the technical migration itself. These issues require continuous oversight across the full RISE lifecycle, before contract signature, during migration, and after go-live.

JNC supports organizations by maintaining control over SAP costs, licensing exposure, and commercial commitments as RISE environments evolve.

JNC services support RISE by enabling:

  • RISE cost modelling and financial forecasting
    Forecasting true costs and scaling impact.

  • SAP user and license optimization through SUMS
    Ongoing control under FUE/SUMS.

  • Procurement-led migration governance
    Independent oversight of migration decisions.

  • SAP contract and licensing validation
    Validation of SAP terms and entitlements.

  • Architecture and migration alignment
    Design aligned to licensing and commercials.

  • Audit-ready compliance and reporting
    Defensible data for audits and renewals.

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HOW JNC SUPPORTS RISE MIGRATIONS

Procurement-Led Oversight From Planning to Go-Live

JNC supports RISE migrations from a procurement and commercial perspective, keeping financial and licensing risk under control as technical decisions are made. We work alongside delivery and architecture teams to ensure scope, scaling, and licensing remain defensible throughout the transition.

Our services are designed to protect cost, maintain transparency, and prevent SAP licensing issues from emerging after go-live.

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What Changes Under RISE with SAP
SAP User Managed Service (SUMS)

Ongoing monitoring and optimization of SAP users under the Full User Equivalent (FUE) model to prevent over-licensing and compliance risk.

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Licensing & Contract Validation

Independent review of SAP commercial terms, licensing metrics, and contract structures to ensure alignment with actual usage and business needs.

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Migration & Architecture Oversight

Commercial and licensing governance aligned with solution architecture to prevent design decisions from driving unnecessary cost or lock-in.

Architecture Oversight
Solution Architecture

Cost modelling, licensing governance, and solution architecture are aligned from early planning through migration and into steady-state operation, ensuring technical decisions remain commercially defensible at every stage.

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LICENSING RISK DURING RISE

Why the FUE Model Requires Continuous Control

RISE with SAP replaces traditional named user licenses with the Full User Equivalent (FUE) model. While positioned as a simplification, FUE introduces aggregation and weighting that reduce transparency into how access translates into cost. During transition, unused, duplicate, or over-provisioned access is more easily absorbed into the FUE calculation, allowing licensing exposure to grow without clear visibility.

Without strong, ongoing user governance, organizations risk locking inefficient access patterns into long-term RISE contracts. Because FUE consumption directly impacts subscription cost and future commercial negotiations, weak controls increase the likelihood of sustained over-licensing and heightened audit exposure.

Without active user governance, organizations are exposed to long-term licensing inefficiencies and audit risk.

  • Identification of dormant and duplicate users

  • Accurate mapping of access to license entitlements

  • Continuous monitoring across ECC and S/4HANA

  • Reduced audit exposure post-migration

  •  Defensible licensing positions

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